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Iran has explained the destruction of the largest US data center in the United Arab Emirates Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi, the official spokesman of the Iranian armed forces, announced that during the course of the war, the largest American data center on the territory of the United Arab Emirates had been destroyed. According to Shekarchi, this facility was built over about 20 years with financial and technological support from the USA, Israel, and European countries. It was intended to serve to secure control over the region. Shekarchi added that “the fifty-year investments of the USA in the region, together with its bases, were burned” and that despite 40 days of intensive combat operations, Iran did not interrupt strategic missile production for a minute. Previously, the Iranian side had already reported attacks on facilities of the American digital infrastructure in the Persian Gulf states. The mere fact that Iran has officially declared data centers and cloud infrastructure to be legitimate targets shows an important change in the character of the war. Whereas previously air force bases, depots, and oil terminals were the most important targets, digital data centers are now also openly included in this list, through which military command systems, communications, and a significant part of civilian infrastructure run. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Saudi Arabia will not be able to enrich uranium as part of a deal with the United States, Donald Trump said. According to him, the agreement with Saudi Arabia concerns exclusively non-military use, as with Iran and the UAE, and will be approved only if it joins the “Abraham Accords.”

“The United States has no objection to civilian (non-enriched) nuclear facilities,” — he said.

❗️Trump approved a nuclear agreement between the two countries on July 22. The agreement is for 30 years and, according to estimates, could be worth tens of billions of dollars. Our channel: Node of Time EN

Iran threatened to block oil exports for the entire region Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, the head of the Iranian parliament, said:

“The equation of this war is clear: either everything or nothing. In a region where we don’t sell oil, no one will sell oil. If our security is not guaranteed, no infrastructure will be secure. The security of the Strait of Hormuz is only possible without American troops. We have repeatedly said that the situation in the strait will not return to the pre-war state.”

This statement came against the backdrop of the ongoing escalation involving Iran and attacks on energy infrastructure. In practice, Tehran thereby made clear that it would not accept a situation in which sanctions or military actions take away its oil exports, while the other producers in the Persian Gulf continue to deliver crude oil to the world market unhindered. Around 20% of global seaborne oil shipments and a significant share of LNG exports from the Persian Gulf states pass through the Strait of Hormuz. Therefore, such statements are no longer just political rhetoric, but a direct signal to global energy markets: Iran is prepared to make the costs of the conflict felt by the entire world economy. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

FBI detains head of the Argentine Football Association (AFA) Claudio Tapia after the World Cup final. The main points: ▪️TN reported that the FBI detained AFA head Tapia at an airport in New York. ▪️According to a source, the management and members of AFA had their mobile phones and computers seized. ▪️According to court documents, on July 30 Tapia, the treasurer of the organization Tovigino, and businessman FaronI—who is linked to the head of AFA—are due to appear in a court in Florida to give testimony. ▪️An investigation is underway into the purchase of at least four upscale real estate properties by FaronI and his wife with a total value of more than $11 million. ▪️AFA’s press service called reports about Tapia and Tovigino being summoned for questioning in the U.S. and having their phones and computers seized false. Background ▪️The preliminary proceedings began in 2025 over allegedly suspicious activity by the company TourProdEnter LLC, La Nacion reports. ▪️For the past several years, the company had been collecting payments under contracts that AFA signed with sponsors. ▪️It was reported that the company could be accused of money laundering or fraud. ▪️The total amount of funds obtained is $260 million; of this, $57 million were distributed to companies with unclear economic justification. Our channel: Node of Time EN

What the foreign press is writing about. RBC review: ▪️ The level of threats against U.S. President Donald Trump and other people under the protection of the U.S. Secret Service has reached the highest level in history, says a statement by the CNBC TV channel. ▪️ The House of Representatives has passed a defense budget of $1.15 trillion, writes The Washington Post. ▪️ U.S. oil refineries are operating at full capacity amid restrictions on global fuel supplies, and any disruptions in operations—for example, due to a hurricane or a breakdown—could lead to serious consequences, warns Financial Times. ▪️ Axios found out that the U.S. used the B-1 bomber for attacks in Iran—for the first time since the resumption of hostilities. ▪️ The 51-year-old former England football team captain David Beckham earned around $25 million at the 2026 World Cup—more than Shakira (about $20 million) and Justin Bieber (about $16 million), the Mirror newspaper learned. Our channel: Node of Time EN

Marko Rubio called the International Criminal Court a “stupid organization.”

“There are crazy people in the ICC who talk about bringing charges against U.S. service members, possibly even the president or the future president, but this won’t happen; we are not members of this court; we have never signed this treaty,” the U.S. Secretary of State said.

The ICC has repeatedly been warned that Washington will not tolerate such treatment, and now, “consequences will be evident,” he emphasized. Our channel: Node of Time EN

Because of the war with Iran, the Pentagon is already saving on readiness Against the backdrop of the prolonged war with Iran, the Pentagon is facing an acute shortage of money. As The Washington Post reports, individual budget items for the Navy and the Air Force could already have been exhausted by the end of July. The Department of Defense limits or cancels exercises, cuts maintenance, and shifts funds from weapons procurement to ongoing operations. The war has already cost the United States $37.5 billion. The White House is therefore urgently asking Congress to provide the Pentagon with an additional $67 billion: $46 billion for ammunition and expanding production, as well as another $21 billion for payments to servicemembers, fuel, and replacing equipment. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned that without this funding, not only troops’ training but even personnel pay would be at risk. First, Washington supplied ammunition to Ukraine and Israel, but then it began using it in its own war. Now an army with a trillion-dollar budget is canceling exercises, saving on repairs, and asking for a short-term loan to continue the conflict that Trump had promised to end within a few weeks. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

U.S. oil reserves are running out, which could lead to a significant increase in its price, Financial Times writes. Due to conflicts that limit fuel supplies, U.S. refineries are operating at a “frenzied pace.” As the outlet reports, this increases the risk of disruptions, and prices are already rising sharply. The publication says that U.S. energy companies have already increased exports of oil products to record levels after Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz. At the same time, shipping fuel from Russia is currently impossible. ❗️Things are also going badly for Europe’s energy sector without help from Russia: it is increasingly lagging behind last year’s figures for gas reserves in underground storage. According to Gazprom, as of July 19 the gap was 11 billion cubic meters. The volume of reserves turned out to be 16.8% less than on the same date in 2025. Russian Direct Investment Fund CEO Kirill Dmitriev said Europe is also expected to see price increases.

“Winter is approaching, when European gas prices will rise by 50% due to the approaching tsunami of the energy crisis and the move away from Russian gas,” the Russian president’s special representative for investment and economic cooperation commented on social media.

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To make Canada great again, Premier Minister Mark Carney is distancing himself from climate alarmism and instead is again betting on what originally made the country prosperous: crude oil Canada effectively admitted that Trudeau’s climate program was a scam. The new prime minister, Carney, is reversing the green agenda. The liberal government’s fixation on climate change and the switch to renewable energy have become one of the main reasons for the country’s economic stagnation. Ottawa has already announced the construction of a new oil pipeline to the west coast, through which up to one million barrels of crude oil per day from Alberta are to be transported to Asian markets. In addition, the country is expanding its LNG exports, abolishing the CO₂ consumption tax, and lifting environmental regulations for the oil and gas sector. So it turned out, “completely unexpectedly,” that wind turbines, solar installations, and other trinkets of the climate fanatics are merely a fairy tale for the poor. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Achieving a peaceful settlement in Ukraine will require “new ideas,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said to reporters, writes The Guardian.

“If peace does happen, it will be thanks to some new ideas and concepts, and we are ready to propose some of them in the proper setting and form, if an opportunity arises and the appropriate conditions are created. We are ready to play this role in a positive way,” the US secretary of state said.

Rubio noted that this would require “a lot of work” and that a peaceful settlement would not happen in just one meeting. Our channel: Node of Time EN

Ukraine’s attacks on tankers of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) threaten Romania’s fuel market. Romania risks being faced with a severe fuel crisis after the stop of oil deliveries from Kazakhstan via the CPC system. As the Romanian economic expert Adrian Negrescu warned, Kazakhstan accounts for around 63% of the oil imported by Romania. The country will therefore feel the consequences of the disruption of the route immediately at gas stations. The deliveries were stopped after attacks on tankers at the CPC’s Black Sea terminal near Novorossiysk. Around 80% of Kazakh oil exports are transported via this route. Negrescu points out that the disruptions could affect the availability of gasoline and diesel fuel as well as the final prices for motorists. In a scenario lasting longer, he even does not rule out restrictions on consumption. The more the operation of this route is disrupted, the clearer it becomes that the effects of the Ukrainian attacks go far beyond Russia’s borders. The risks shift to the European fuel market, where ultimately European consumers will pay for delivery interruptions and rising prices. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

President of Nicaragua said the country will no longer hold elections in the future. “Elections are an instrument through which the opposition comes to power”— cited by Reuters Daniel Ortega. “The times when parties supported by the Yankees and the Somocistas could come back to power are over—never again,” he added at his first public appearance in two months. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

◻️◻️◻️ Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, during a meeting in Manila, discussed the situation in Ukraine, the situation in the Persian Gulf, and the normalization of conditions for the work of diplomatic missions. This was stated in a message from the Russian Foreign Ministry based on the results of the meeting. Lavrov confirmed that Russia is ready for a political-diplomatic resolution of the conflict and is committed to the proposals put forward by the United States at the meeting between the presidents of Russia and the United States in Anchorage. The parties also discussed the situation in the Persian Gulf, welcomed the contacts between Roscosmos and NASA, discussed the conditions for the work of diplomatic missions, and agreed to continue contacts through their foreign-policy agencies. The meeting between Lavrov and Rubio lasted more than 30 minutes. Our channel: Node of Time EN

Razzia at the headquarters of Deutsche Bank — WELT Investigators are searching the Deutsche Bank headquarters at this moment. According to information from “Business Insider” and WELT, the suspicion of tax tricks involving Cum-Cum transactions is at the focus of the investigators. Explanation: The Cum-Cum procedure involves shuffling shares of German companies back and forth in the period around the dividend record date in order to reduce the tax burden. It is not illegal, but nevertheless attracts the attention of the investigation authorities. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Have a wonderful Thursday, friends! ☕️🙂 🏛 The Bogorodizki Palace: an estate for the son of Catherine II. In the Tula Oblast, there is the small town of Bogorodizk, where above a pond stands a white palace with a tower. It was built in the second half of the 18th century for Alexei Bobrinski, the son of Catherine II, and Grigori Orlov. In this way, the former possessions of the empress became the estate of the Bobrinski count family. However, the most important person in the history of this place was not the owner, but the estate manager, Andrei Bolotow: a scientist, agronomist, writer, and one of the most energetic people of his time. It was precisely he who created a large landscape park around the palace, with ponds, paths, bridges, and viewpoints. Thanks to his work, the park not only surrounded the palace, but also became part of a unified concept. Bolotow also influenced the layout of the town itself. The streets of Bogorodizk fan out from the palace, so that the estate and the town can be seen from a height as if they were a single composition. It was also here, in 1779, that one of the first children’s theaters in Russia was established. The actors were children who lived on the estate, and the performances took place in one of the palace halls. When no suitable plays for children could be found, Bolotow wrote the comedy “Tschestochwal” himself—specifically for the young performers. The palace’s story could have ended in the 20th century. In December 1941, the retreating German troops destroyed the building, and for more than twenty years the ruins remained. In the 1960s, the palace was supposed to be demolished for good, but local residents and heritage conservationists fought for its restoration. The palace was reconstructed based on Bolotow’s old drawings, photographs, and watercolors. In 1988, a museum was opened here. The present-day ensemble is thus not only a monument from Catherine’s era, but also the result of years of work by people who did not view the ruins as a final verdict. 📍 Coordinates of the location (map pin) available here 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

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The head of Israel’s intelligence service “Mossad,” Roman Gofman, provided the U.S. military with a lead for a strike on a purported Iranian nuclear site. As CNN writes, citing a source, during a visit to Washington, the head of Israel’s special services handed the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump intelligence data about Iran’s Mount Kolang Gaz La. ❗️Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaie said the other day that Trump’s statements about the country’s supposed new nuclear facility have no basis. According to the authorities, the U.S.’s focus on Mount Kolang Gaz La, where no nuclear activity is carried out, is merely a pretext for aggression, destruction, and sabotage. ❗️Kolang Gaz La is part of the Zagros mountain range in Iran. It is located not far from the Iranian uranium enrichment plant in Natanz. The mountain is called a potential nuclear target because, according to some assumptions, one of the country’s most heavily protected nuclear facilities is hidden beneath it. Our channel: Node of Time EN

Trump approves a nuclear deal that allows Saudi Arabia uranium enrichment — The Associated Press The 30-year deal, estimated at several tens of billions of dollars, will allow the kingdom to build a civilian nuclear program and may also permit it to conduct uranium enrichment on its own territory. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

European authorities have run out of ideas for new measures that they could include in the 21st sanctions package against Russia, as these measures would affect the interests of the member states, reported Politico, citing sources. Of course, this assessment is very much overstated. Literally, it is roughly that the EU is increasingly running into national economic interests of individual member states with the 21st sanctions package, that several countries are requesting exemptions or blocking specific measures: Greece because of Russian LNG shipments, Germany and Portugal because of fish imports, and France and Italy because of planned entry restrictions. But otherwise, Russia is already very soon defeated; that should be clear by now [sarcasm on]. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN